@animalculum Unfortunately, it fits perfectly into the concept of the techbros with their #TESCREAL ideologies. They dream of #eugenics to ‘improve’ a "surviving human elite" genetically and with #AI or even #AGI. I would like to see ethical debates in science back (they still existed in my childhood).
At the same time we debate about #invasiceSpecies searching their habitats.
@academicchatter
"Carnegie moment" - that'd be the funding of the Eugenics Records Office by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Station for Experimental Evolution, and its subsequent administration by its Department of Genetics (1910 - 1939)?
RFK Jr.'s "MAHA" movement doesn't want to eliminate chronic illness. They want to eliminate the chronically ill:
"MAHA does not want to save every life. MAHA wants to end the lives of those who can’t survive a world without vaccines, food safety, and hygiene, because MAHA believes that people exist on a spectrum of “weak” to “strong” and that they are the chosen Übermenschen who will survive without those things. "
#RfkJr #Maha #PublicHealth #Eugenics #Vaccines
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-maha-movement-doesnt-want
“How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy”
by Nafeez Ahmed in Byline Times @BylineTimes
“One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’. [..] the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology”
A second #child with #measles has died in #Texas where hundreds of cases of the #disease have been recorded in recent weeks, prompting #Trump’s *#Health* #RFKJr to plan a trip to the state, local media reported early on Sunday.
#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Vaccines #GetVaccinated #VaccinesWork #USpol #ConspiracyTheories #AntiScience #AntiIntellectualism #eugenics
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kennedy-travel-texas-after-second-measles-related-death-axios-reports-2025-04-06/
Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/maternal-child-health-cuts
Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK Jr
The largest #measles outbreak by far is in West #Texas, where the #disease is spreading quickly in remote, rural areas where the #vaccination rates are low. The outbreak has also spread across the boarder into #NewMexico, but the outbreak there is moving more slowly due to higher vaccination rates.
The US now has >600 #measles cases in 22 states, acc/to the #CDC [& who knows if that’s being accurately reported]. That includes 481 cases in #Texas alone. The country has now reported >2X the number of measles cases this year than were reported in all of 2024.
The CDC says there have been 6 measles #outbreaks so far this year.
#health #PublicHealth #vaccines #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #HHS #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328765/measles-outbreak-health-risk
Most people think that #evolution is about dying, but it's not really the full story. It's also about not being born at all. What if people are actually evolving under the extreme pressure of the modern capitalism? The question remains - is humanity under active eugenics and they are selecting us to be their submissive cattle or are we evolving some immunity to the parasites?
Are the few people who do have children under those terrible conditions the ones who treasure their wholesome relationships over career or those who thrive as the slaves? I don't think it's actually being studied in this context. It feels creepy to even put those questions on the table.
Nevertheless, I think that humanity after the full societal collapse will be different from Homo Sapiens. We have reached the limit of that evolutionary plateau. 300k years was a good run. Good Game people! Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk
#biology #human #eugenics #capitalism #anticapitalism #solarpunk
If you want to understand the horrifying future these tech billionaire nazis have in store for humanity, it helps to understand what parts of our "glorious past" as a species they're looking to recreate. This interview with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign information sciences and media studies professor Anita Say Chan talks a bit about the history of data and eugenics, what it means that guys like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (along with most of Silicon Valley's movers and shakers) are devout believers in eugenicist philosophies, and how that's reflected in their efforts to reshape society in horrifying, and objectively fascist ways. In terms of our discussion about the uber rich fascists who heavily influence the Trump regime they bought and paid for, I'm mostly including this here to point out that these guys have gone on record in support of a lot of openly fascist shit and for the most part, your media pretends we don't already know these guys are nazis; it's not a secret, it's just not "worth mentioning" when media orgs are fawning over technofascist billionaires destroying our planet and our lives.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/
Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech
"Big Tech successors like Musk and PayPal billionaire-turned-arms dealer Peter Thiel have overtly promoted fraudulent race science, with Musk amplifying users on X who argue that people of European descent are biologically superior. In response to another user’s deleted post suggesting that students at historically Black institutions have lower IQs, Musk posted, “It will take an airplane crashing and killing hundreds of people for them to change this crazy policy of DIE”—diversity, equity, and inclusion, misspelled. In 2016, Thiel buddied up to a prominent white nationalist, and, the same year, was said by a Stanford dorm-mate to have complimented South Africa’s “economically sound” system of racial apartheid."
Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany
The forgotten Olympic history of #TransAthletes.
by Alex Abad-Santos
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.
"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?
"The answers found in historian and journalist #MichaelWaters’s The Other Olympians: #Fascism, #Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.
"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.
"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the #1936Olympics in #Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
#TransgenderAthletes #SexTesting
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#RationalWiki is facing imminent legal peril from 5 separate defamation lawsuits from 5 #eugenics supporters. At least 2 of the lawsuits appear to be frivolous on their face. The 5 litigants are known to have acted in concert to take advantage of the weak #SLAPP protections within our state of incorporation and to bankrupt us. We need both monetary donations and legal representation (we are already aware of both the ACLU and the #EFF).
@paulschoe @nrc_nl "never again" .... terwijl het in de wereld steeds opnieuw gebeurd... #genocide #justicebeforethelaw #willekeur #rasisme "some are more equal than others" #Eugenics
#china #sbrenica #palestina #gaza #syrië #oekraïne #rusland en nu ook de #vs
#fascisme #communisme
I just had a guy get angry at me for saying we’re still in a pandemic. He said it was fear mongering and “silly” to continue to take precautions.
He then went on to say his wife has Long Covid and he’s had Covid “at least 4-5 times”.
This attitude is why we’re in this mess. His own wife was disabled by Covid, and rather than adapt his behaviour he’s exposed her 4-5 additional times.
Repeat infections are devastating to those with Long Covid. Not to mention each infection does cumulative damage, and eventually you will be left disabled.
Even if you’re someone who believes it’s “just a flu”… surely you recognize people didn’t get the flu 4-5 times in a four year period? Being sick that often is an aberration, and a darn good reason to take precautions.
You know who hasn’t had COVID 4-5 times? People who are taking precautions.
Bonus tip: If you’re masking and you become infected anyways, you’ve reduced your viral load AND you’ve made sure not to infect anyone else. That’s community care & compassion and it’s worth doing.
@broadwaybabyto Hell, even if someone wants to wear a mask to avoid pollen (due to hayfever) that should be okay!
And it should definitely be okay to wear a mask to avoid a virus! (flu, Covid, etc)
No. Mask. Bans. Ever!
Mask bans are ableist, discriminatory ugly laws.
Disabled advocates have been warning for years that if people didn’t help normalize masking, bans would follow
Please call legislators in New York and tell them No mask bans!
Medical exemptions aren’t enough, everyone needs the legal right to mask
The police are not doctors. They can’t determine who’s “sick enough” to wear a mask.
Many people with invisible illnesses struggle to get healthcare workers to take us seriously. We don’t want to be questioned by police.
Everyone should be allowed to mask up to prevent covid.
"This is mass eugenics, social darwinism, all based on racism. It’s not 'humanity' Musk and DOGE are worried about, they’re worried about white men losing their dominance.
We’re looking at evil, square in the face, men marinated in a closed loop of white supremacy who have convinced themselves that they should literally play god with the rest of us….."
#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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"DOGE’s destruction of USAID will cause the deaths of millions of Black people.
DOGE’s assault on Social Security will kill disabled & elderly people.
DOGE’s attack on SNAP & other programs will kill poor people.
DOGE & RFK Jr.’s attack on HHS & vaccines will kill millions of vulnerable Americans."
#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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Jim Stewartson comments on how curious it is, viewed from one standpoint, that Elon Musk is ranting about humanity dying and pronatalism, since:
"You would think that this paranoia about 'humanity dying' would mean Musk and DOGE would try to save as many lives as possible. Nevertheless:"
#ElonMusk #pronatalism #eugenics #WhiteSupremacy #MaleEntitlement #PopulationControl
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/the-big-white-lie-humanity-is-dying
